Slate The vice president has run utterly amok and must be stopped. By Bruce Fein Under Dick Cheney, the office of the vice president has been transformed from a tiny acorn into an unprecedented giant oak. In grasping and exercising presidential powers, Cheney has dulled political accountability and concocted theories for evading the law and…
Lahontan Valley News and Fallon Eagle Standard (Nevada) Well before and ever since his infamously secretive Energy Policy meeting in 2000, Vice President Richard Cheney has actively tried to mislead American opinion. He arrogantly believes that his “former association” with war-profiteering Haliburton, his 2002 effort to persuade the CIA to make unsubstantiated reports about Saddam’s…
Patrick McElwee, Just Foreign Policy Blog Since the Abu Ghraib scandal broke in 2004, there has been widespread speculation that the abuses captured in the shocking photos were more than the work of a few “bad apples.” Historian Alfred McCoy, who has written a history of CIA interrogation practices, noted that the practices at Abu…
by Linda Milazzo, opednews.com This afternoon I received an email from Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy asking me to visit http://www.democraticmajority.com/cheney and sign a petition to remind Vice President Dick Cheney “that he can’t ignore our nation’s laws.” For me, a longtime advocate of impeaching and indicting President Bush and Vice President Cheney for unconstitutional acts…
